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Creative Time Tweets Continues with Jill Magid’s #Faustoswitness

NEW YORK, NY.- At 12:15 p.m. on January 21, 2010, 24-year-old Fausto Cardenas fired several shots from a small caliber handgun into the air on the southern steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin. No motive has been established. He faces charges of a third degree felony: deadly conduct and terrorist threat to a government system. Cardenas had just visited state senator Dan Patrick’s office before the shooting. Patrick, a Republican who represents Houston, said, “The suspect came into my office asking to speak to one of my female staff members. He left and a few minutes later several shots were reportedly fired.” Witnesses told the newspaper they saw a man on the southern steps who was quickly surrounded by the police. “Two guards rushed out. They surrounded this guy,” said Jill Magid of New York. “It looked like a football huddle.” Jill Magid (@jillmagid)— who, oddly enough, was visiting Texas to research snipers — witnessed this mysterious shooting by Fausto Cardenas. Nothi